Joseph Wintergerst
Joseph Wintergerst (3 October 1783, Wallerstein, Bavaria, Wallerstein - 25 January 1867, Düsseldorf) was a German painter in the Romanticism, Romantic style; associated with the Nazarene movement. Life and work He was born to the painter, Anton Wintergerst (1737–1805), and his second wife, Maria Barbara née Bux, daughter of the faience maker, Johann Baptist Bux (1716-1800). After 1804, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, then the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. There, in 1809, he became one of the co-founders of the "Lukasbund" artists' guild. In 1811, he went to Rome with his friends, Friedrich Overbeck and Franz Pforr, and joined the artists' colony at Sant’Isidoro a Capo le Case. Pforr's untimely death in 1812 left him unsettled so, in 1813, he went to Switzerland, accompanied by , and taught at the Cantonal school in Aarau.Friedrich Noack: ''Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters''. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Vol.2, pg.650 After 1 ...
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